[Test-Announce] OpenSCAP Test Day - Thursday 2010-08-26

2010-08-25 Thread Kamil Paral
Greetings, An OpenSCAP Test Day is coming up tomorrow - Thursday 26th August: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-08-26_OpenSCAP OpenSCAP is a tool for maintaining the security of systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration

[Test-Announce] 2010-08-26 OpenSCAP Test Day report

2010-08-30 Thread Kamil Paral
prove this upcoming Fedora 14 feature. See you on the next test day, Kamil Paral [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-08-26_OpenSCAP ___ test-announce mailing list test-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

[Test-Announce] OpenLDAP/NSS Test Day - Thursday 2010-10-14

2010-10-08 Thread Kamil Paral
Dear Fedora Comunity, We would like to draw your attention to forthcoming Fedora Test Day focused on OpenLDAP [1] with TLS encryption. The crypto implementation for TLS/SSL was recently changed from OpenSSL to Mozilla Network Security Services (MozNSS). And there are 88 packages depending on open

[Test-Announce] OpenLDAP/NSS Test Day - Thursday 2010-10-14 - recap

2010-10-15 Thread Kamil Paral
Hello, thanks everyone for participation in OpenLDAP/NSS Test Day [1]. The participation was little low, but it was somehow expected, because this was a non-trivial topic. Anyway, a few bugs were discovered (and other stuff was confirmed to work ok): 641946 - slapd init script gets stuck in an inf

Re: Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

2011-07-28 Thread Kamil Paral
> Miloslav Trmač wrote: > I can't really see who is the expected user of ~/.local/bin . From my > POV the whole point of ~/.local is to store data that is hidden from > users - it is "application" data, not "user data". I am. I'm using that for years and I'm very happy that bin/ doesn't clutter m

AutoQA 0.6 released

2011-08-05 Thread Kamil Paral
Please read: https://kparal.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/autoqa-0-6-released/ Kamil -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Autodetecting insufficiently hardened builds (was: New hardened build support (coming) in F16)

2011-08-10 Thread Kamil Paral
> Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Unless the checking is part of autoqa this simply isn't > > sufficient. There's a huge benefit to implementing it in the way > > that's > > easiest for maintainers. > > The earlier a problem is detected, the cheaper it is to fix. If I have > understood AutoQA right, it

Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check? [Re: ssh-to-rawhide hangs

2011-09-12 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 01:02:26AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 08:56 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > I thought AutoQA was going to do this, but it's been > > > disappointing. I haven't read the whole thread, but I also feel the rate of AutoQA development i

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-23 Thread Kamil Paral
> Am I right in saying that AutoQA is basically mired in the muck and > going nowhere at the moment? > > -- > Doug Ledford Our progress is very slow at the moment, correct. We will happily welcome some help. We don't have many tasks that you could do in a free afternoon, however. A free week o

[Test-Announce] ABRT Retrace Server Test Day today (2011-03-31)

2011-03-31 Thread Kamil Paral
Fedora QA holds Test Day regarding ABRT 2 and Retrace Server on March 31: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-31_ABRT_Retrace_Server This test day will focus on Retrace Server feature [1] in Fedora 15 as well as ABRT 2.0. Refreshed and bright new test cases are prepared for your cons

AutoQA vs Bodhi – round 2

2011-04-11 Thread Kamil Paral
As you probably noticed not so long ago we announced [1] that AutoQA [2] would be sending comments to Bodhi [3] and inform package maintainers about the results of important test cases (depcheck and ugpradepath). We enabled the functionality and disabled it again very soon due to a number of pro

Re: AutoQA: distro congestion?

2011-04-18 Thread Kamil Paral
> Hi, > > I built two sets of security updates for f13/f14/f15 and autoqa > rejected > the f13/f14 packages. It looks like autoqa is waiting for the packages > to be properly pushed to f stable before green-lighting the > matching package for f. I suppose you're talking about upgradepath test. Y

Re: AutoQA: distro congestion?

2011-04-18 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 04:35 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > > I built two sets of security updates for f13/f14/f15 and autoqa > > > rejected > > > the f13/f14 packages. It looks like autoqa is waiting for the > > packages > > > to be properly

Re: AutoQA: distro congestion?

2011-04-18 Thread Kamil Paral
I've created a short blogpost about this issue: http://kparal.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/autoqa-upgradepath-vs-updates-to-multiple-fedora-releases/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: AutoQA upgrade path failure makes no sense to me

2011-04-27 Thread Kamil Paral
> Here is the update: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.6.2-1.fc13.7 > > Here's the failed test result: > > http://autoqa.fedoraproject.org/results/87921-autotest/qa03.c.fedoraproject.org/upgradepath/results/output.log > > This is pretty confusing. > > Why does it mentio

Re: Avoiding conditioning ignorance towards AutoQA

2011-04-27 Thread Kamil Paral
> Hi fellow Fedorans. > > Recently, AutoQA has been introduced to catch typical problems early > in > the update process. In general, I appreciate that effort, but > currently > I find myself in a phase of conditioning ignorance towards AutoQA, > essentially because it is drowning me in irrelevant

Re: Avoiding conditioning ignorance towards AutoQA

2011-04-28 Thread Kamil Paral
> Keeping the current way will just make me (and possibly others) add > filters to throw away messages from AutoQA. Please be aware of how > much > contributor time you waste by making them hope through useless > (because > the tests have passed and no information is gained) mails. I realize > you

AutoQA 0.4.7 released

2011-04-29 Thread Kamil Paral
Please read: http://kparal.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/autoqa-0-4-7-released/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora 14 Update: lvm2-2.02.84-2.fc14

2011-06-16 Thread Kamil Paral
> Mike McLean wrote: > > lvm2-2.02.84-2.fc14 has a higher NVR than the current F15 build > > (lvm2-2.02.84-1.fc15). Shouldn't some sanity check have caught this, > > or am I missing something? > > AutoQA complains about these kind of things, but most maintainers > don't read > AutoQA complaints, p

AutoQA 0.5.0 released

2011-06-29 Thread Kamil Paral
AutoQA 0.5.0 has just been released and deployed. Package maintainers will see some notable changes. Please read the whole description here: http://kparal.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/autoqa-0-5-0-released/ Comments welcome. Kamil -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.f

[Test-Announce] Fedora 13 Alpha TC Validation Test (Thu 02-11 to Wed 02-17)

2010-02-10 Thread Kamil Paral
- Forwarded Message - From: "He Rui" To: "test list" Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:12:57 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Fedora 13 Alpha TC Validation Test (Thu 02-11 to Wed 02-17) Greetings, As we have entered F13 test phase, now it

FESCo wants a more sane updates policy (feedback requested)

2010-03-01 Thread Kamil Paral
Hello, I have seen the long thread about Updates Policy. I just wish to inform you that I (as part of the QA team) have been working on a draft of exactly such a policy. I suppose I will be able to make it public during this week. I will post a link here, so all the people will have some basis wh

QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-09 Thread Kamil Paral
Hello, I have been (together with the QA team) working on a 'Package update policy' proposal. Because Matthew Garrett yesterday presented his own proposal regarding this topic, we decided to also present our proposal, albeit still unfinished. The proposal is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wik

Re: QA's Package update policy proposal

2010-03-10 Thread Kamil Paral
- "Adam Williamson" wrote: > There actually already *is* a review point > prior to moving to -updates, but it's currently owned by rel-eng and > is > not highly publicized, and very little gets rejected. It is there, > though: rel-eng explained this earlier in the threads, and explained > that

Re: Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

2010-03-12 Thread Kamil Paral
- "Jesse Keating" wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:21 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > Paul: Jesse Keating provided a draft policy for what updates should > be > > done. Board will take this into consideration, if necessary, in > > another round of discussions (not this meeting). > > https://

[Test-Announce] ABRT Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-01

2010-03-31 Thread Kamil Paral
Yes, it’s here again, the April Fools’ Day [1]! If you don’t have your own plans already, let me propose one for you – participate on the ABRT test day! ABRT is a tool that helps reporting program crashes with a few simple mouse clicks. It is a significant part of Fedora operating system and its

[Test-Announce] 2010-04-01 ABRT Test Day report

2010-04-06 Thread Kamil Paral
This is a post-event review of the ABRT test day [1]. Thank you everyone who contributed to ABRT testing. Unfortunately there weren't many attendants, probably because it was really close to Easter holidays. But still there were some bugs discovered, the list is here (and I'm sure even more bugs w

Re: systemd, disabling cryptsetup device

2011-11-28 Thread Kamil Paral
> Hi everyone! > > Is there a way of forcing systemd not to mount an encrypted partition > when booting the system? I have one encrypted partition (on LVM) on > my laptop, which I do not want to have mounted automatically. I'm > mounting it only when I need it with a simple script. > > With F15,

Re: Ask Fedora

2011-11-28 Thread Kamil Paral
> > Dear Rahul, > > I'm a community moderator at Ask Ubuntu. And I was talking to some > people > about what mistakes we think Ask Fedora and Ask Debian have made, so > I > thought I'd give you some feedback. > > That is great feedback. All of those proposals are very reasonable. -- devel

Re: systemd, disabling cryptsetup device

2011-11-28 Thread Kamil Paral
> > > my kernel options: ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_nb-lv_root > > > rd_LVM_LV=vg_nb/lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM > > > > You want to use "rd.luks.uuid" kernel option. See "man > > dracut.kernel". > > rd_NO_LUKS (or rd.luks=0) disables LUKS detection > entirely. I believe this is not about i

Re: Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

2012-01-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> Thanks for the pointers. > > By running this command, I have signed up for iwhd-related > notifications in F-16 and rawhide: > > ssh fedorapeople.org autoqa-optin iwhd devel F-16 With this command you will subscribe for rpmlint and rpmguard test results for every new build [1]. Depcheck

Re: RATS: now in production

2012-02-21 Thread Kamil Paral
> On 02/21/2012 10:48 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > the rats_install test runs an entirely automated test of the Fedora > > installer daily, against the daily installer composes provided by > > release engineering. It provides detailed logs and pinpoints where > > failure occurs if the ins

Re: F17 x86_64 composes

2012-03-05 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:37:50 -0600 > Mike Chambers wrote: > > > Noticed that x86_64 tree is still NOT installable, as in no > > boot.iso > > or anything. Is this going to remain that way for awhile? > > Well, it's going to stay that way until the bug that prevents it > working is fixed. :) >

[Test-Announce] Test Day 2012-03-15: GNOME Shell and Extensions

2012-03-12 Thread Kamil Paral
There will be a "GNOME Shell and Extensions" Test Day on Thursday! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-15_Gnome_Shell_and_Extensions Here's an introduction from Vitezslav Humpa, who's in charge of this event from QA perspective: While Fedora 17 Test Day cycle is starting to take spe

AutoQA will be providing comments for Fedora updates really soon...

2011-03-21 Thread Kamil Paral
If you're a Fedora package maintainer, you will be surely interested in this topic. AutoQA [1] is a framework for automatic test execution written for Fedora needs. It is developed by Fedora QA [2] team. We have finally reached the state where we can experimentally share some tests results with

Re: Preupgrade F12->F13 error

2010-05-13 Thread Kamil Paral
- "Clovis Tristao" wrote: > How do I increase size the boot partition, with LVM? > My partition: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 190M 39M 142M 22% /boot > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks a lot, > > Clóvis > I think the easiest way is

Re: Missing deltarpms?

2010-06-01 Thread Kamil Paral
- "Jonathan Dieter" wrote: > It seems that deltarpms aren't being kept from one push to another > for > Fedora 13 (and, also it seems, Fedora 11). For example, there's an > openoffice update, but though there were deltarpms when it first came > out, they've gone now. Where should I report

Re: Package maintainers -- want test results by mail?

2010-06-02 Thread Kamil Paral
- "seth vidal" wrote: > > I just added autoqa-optout to fedorapeople. > > it does what you expect it to do and acts just like autoqa-optin Just a minor remark... please add --help. Thanks :) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

Re: No video play back after upgrading from F12 to F13

2010-06-10 Thread Kamil Paral
- "Adam Williamson" wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 13:18 +0800, Luming Yu wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After yum upgrade from f12 to f13, I see the video play back stop > > working (play back window is black and the progress bar seems to be > > always at 0) with banshee and totem. Flash pl

gathering useful statistics for Package Maintainers

2010-07-20 Thread Kamil Paral
Hello, we would like to help Package Maintainers to increase public participation in their activities. We believe that an important step in achieving that is in rewarding the most active participants with "fame" in different top tens, ladders and charts. Therefore we would like to extend the curre

Re: [Fedora Update] [comment] springframework-data-mongodb-1.5.2-1.fc22

2015-07-13 Thread Kamil Paral
> hi > Taskotron depcheck test FAILED with > springframework-data-mongodb-1.5.2-1.fc22 because of this > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-10965/springframework-data-commons-1.8.4-4.fc22?_csrf_token=afc764d7e468ff6e54a1c11c233dbd3d9b2bcf31 > so i should wait still a week for have

Re: Firefox testing - offscreen surfaces and OMTC

2015-08-25 Thread Kamil Paral
> I'm seeing flickering (e.g. with arstechnica) on > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] > RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470] > > with native drivers (F22). I have seen heavy flickering on mapy.cz (online maps) when zooming. The longer I used the b

Re: llvm 3.7 for rawhide and then f23

2015-09-21 Thread Kamil Paral
> Given that we are now post-Beta for F23, it seems a little late in the > cycle to be introducing a new llvm runtime. Is it guaranteed to be > backwards-compatible? OTOH, having OpenGL 4 support in Fedora 23 (at least for certain cards) is a strong marketing point. Personally I'm very much looki

Re: Disable PulseAudio flat volumes to prevent it from pushing volume level to max

2015-09-21 Thread Kamil Paral
> Today I had a scary experience with the audio of my computer. > I was listening to music with Amarok, using my headphones... The KMix volume > level was ~ 35%. When I logged into a video conference application, the > volume suddenly reached the 100%. I was shocked, having the maximum audio > leve

the tragedy of Fedora Live USB conversion and what we can do about it

2014-07-31 Thread Kamil Paral
It's a well-known fact in our circles that third-party USB conversion tools (like UNetbootin or Universal USB Installer) can't create Fedora Live USB correctly. Unfortunately, it is not well known among our users (I see it very often on test list, IRC, or local fedora.cz website/forums) and even

Re: the tragedy of Fedora Live USB conversion and what we can do about it

2014-08-01 Thread Kamil Paral
> What about offering liveusb-creator at the first place instead of ISO? Actually, this might be a great idea. Not "instead", but if we provided two buttons instead of one: [Download DVD image] [Download USB installer] people would immediately saw the difference. If they were after USB instal

Re: the tragedy of Fedora Live USB conversion and what we can do about it

2014-08-01 Thread Kamil Paral
> > Some ideas: > > 1. First and foremost, we should obviously consider whether we can make > > some compose changes that would make the image more compatible with > > third-party USB installers. That's very technical, but I hope relevant > > people could provide some comments here. > > > > I sup

Re: the tragedy of Fedora Live USB conversion and what we can do about it

2014-08-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> So I want to inject a note of caution on this one. A few of us who deal > with boot stuff - me for QA purposes, mjg59 and pjones who actually know > what's going on, and lmacken who maintains luc right now - talked this > over a few months back, and what would like to do with luc is kill it, > or

[Test-Announce] 2014-09-18 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2014-08-18 Thread Kamil Paral
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2014-09-18 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's time again for another QA meeting! It's probably going to be quick, the major and maybe only to

[Test-Announce] 2014-08-20 @ 16:00 UTC ** F21 Blocker Bug Review

2014-08-20 Thread Kamil Paral
# F21 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2014-08-20 # Time: 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net It's the time again for another blocker bug meeting, and it's happening today! At the moment there are 3 proposed blockers and 1 proposed freeze exception

[Test-Announce] F21 Blocker Review ** 2014-09-03 @ 16:00 UTC

2014-09-03 Thread Kamil Paral
# F21 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2014-09-03 # Time: 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers and developers! It's time again for another blocker review meeting! Currently there are 6 proposed blockers a 1 proposed freeze excepti

[Test-Announce] Fedora 21 Cockpit test day tomorrow (Tuesday 2014-09-16)

2014-09-15 Thread Kamil Paral
Hi. There is planned Fedora testday for new feature: *** Cockpit *** It is new web Monitoring&Management interface (system, services, journal, network, storage, containers, users) http://cockpit-project.org/ When: 2014-09-16 Where: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2014-09-16

Re: Major wiki revisions: release process documentation, package maintenance instructions, repository documentation, Changes...

2014-09-26 Thread Kamil Paral
> Hi, folks. As I hinted a bit, and as some of you might know from IRC, > I've spent the last ~24 hours on something of an epic Wiki revision > spree. I made some fairly major and possibly significant changes, so > under the 'ask forgiveness' principle I thought I'd post a quick summary > here. We

Re: [Test-Announce] Taskotron Has Replaced AutoQA

2014-10-15 Thread Kamil Paral
> > """ > > taskotron-dev.fedoraproject.org uses an invalid security certificate. > > The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided. > > The certificate is only valid for taskotron-dev01.qa.fedoraproject.org > > """ Tim needs to respond to that. > > """ > https://taskotron-

Re: Could we disable "AutoQA" until it can produce usable results?

2015-03-25 Thread Kamil Paral
> > Witness (a): > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.29.31-1.fc22 > > The log file in this case is 3452 lines long. > > Witness (b): > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ocaml-camlp4-4.02.0-0.9.git87c6a6b0.fc22 > > The log file in this case is 3452 lines long (not coinci

remedy for depcheck inferior architecture issue

2015-04-09 Thread Kamil Paral
I see people asking on #fedora-devel or #fedora-admin about depcheck inferior architecture issue [1] quite often. Most of them are very confused. Last time I saw someone asking about this was tonight [2]. We're not able fix this easily, but I think we should finally at least put some temporary

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local > > timezone, > No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short: > - the information about the timezone used is not stored in RTC, > so all users o

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201979 is about systemd > > being stupid and rerunning root fsck, which sometimes triggered the > > first issue. I just posted a patch upstream: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/031445.html > > Well, note that this on

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> UEFI doesn't solve anything with the rtc-in-local stuff windows is > doing there. Sorry for being slow, but could you please explain this a bit more? I don't want to nitpick this to death (I've just set Windows to use UTC and it seems to work great), but I'm really interested in learning why U

[Test-Announce] Canceled: 2015-05-25 Fedora QA Meeting

2015-05-25 Thread Kamil Paral
Hello folks, there's an US holiday today and the rest of us are working hard on finalizing tomorrow's F22 release day, so I think there's not much point in having a QA meeting today. I'm calling it off. If you have something urgent to discuss, please write to the test list or ping us in #fedor

[Test-Announce] 2015-06-01 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2015-06-01 Thread Kamil Paral
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2015-06-01 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! We haven't had a QA meeting in a long time, it seems we could do another session. The only important

Re: RFC: LiveUSB Creator Revamped

2015-06-01 Thread Kamil Paral
> Hi everyone, > > for quite a while, I've been working on implementation of a new, revamped > UI, designed by Jakub Steiner for the LiveUSB Creator [0]. Currently, me > and Luke are slowly moving to merge the changes back into the master > branch of the tree. Some stuff is not done, like descript

Re: An update about: Checking the ABI of packages submitted to the updates-testing Fedora repository

2015-06-26 Thread Kamil Paral
> Then, when the package N-udpate-V-R is later submitted to Bodhi, the > update creation process would query ResultDB for the result of the > relevant ABI check that happened at build time. The decision to allow > an automatic push of the update to stable will depend on the result of > that query.

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: swap on zram

2020-06-05 Thread Kamil Paral
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:32 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM > > == Summary == > > Swap is useful, except when it's slow. zram is a RAM drive that uses > compression. Create a swap-on-zram during start-up. And no longer use > swap partitions by default. >

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

2020-06-16 Thread Kamil Paral
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:50 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora-Retired-Packages > > == Summary == > All retired packages are obsoleted by `fedora-retired-packages`. > I'll not talk about implementation, there are more suitable people for that here. But I'll voi

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Default animated background for Fedora Workstation

2020-06-16 Thread Kamil Paral
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:12 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultAnimatedBackground > > == Summary == > Fedora Workstation 33 uses animate background as default. > Can somebody enlighten me what an animated background exactly means? Is it like a video/gif runnin

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Default animated background for Fedora Workstation

2020-06-16 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:24 PM Iñaki Ucar wrote: > From what I found after a quick search ("gnome animated background"), > apparently, it's a video-like effect, but the implementation comprises > several static images (e.g., a general background and several smaller > parts) and a file defining

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

2020-06-16 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:25 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kamil Paral wrote: > > I'll not talk about implementation, there are more suitable people for > > that here. But I'll voice my opinion that automatically retiring software > > from Fedora users' computers

Re: Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: Default animated background for Fedora Workstation

2020-06-17 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:47 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:03 pm, Kamil Paral wrote: > > The person proposing this Change should supply some video showcasing > > this, or a very detailed description, otherwise people will have very > > varying id

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

2020-06-17 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:30 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 3:48 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora-Retired-Packages > > > > == Summary == > > All retired packages are obsoleted by `fedora-retired-packages`. > > > > This whole process is un

Re: Fedora Packager Dashboard available for testing

2020-06-24 Thread Kamil Paral
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:30 PM Josef Skladanka wrote: > Hi, > > We'd like to announce public testing of the Packager Dashboard - a new > service for Fedora package maintainers aiming to provide all relevant > data: FTBFS/FTI status (from both Bugzilla, Koschei and health check), > orphan warning

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-29 Thread Kamil Paral
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:21 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 13:18 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault > > > > == Summary == > > > > Let's make Fedora more approachable, by having a default editor that > > doesn't require speciali

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-07-03 Thread Kamil Paral
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:18 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > So all those people are happy with vi? IMHO an argument for changing > > this would be that a lot of people are already changing EDITOR to nano, > > so it makes sense to make it a default. If this is actuall

Re: Btrfs by default, the compression option

2020-07-08 Thread Kamil Paral
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 8:26 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > D. Which directories? Some may be outside of the installer's scope. > > /usr > /var/lib/flatpak > ~/.local/share/flatpak > I have a concern regarding games. Currently, we have a few a bit more demanding titles on Flathub already, like 0AD, Xon

Re: Btrfs by default, the compression option

2020-07-08 Thread Kamil Paral
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:22 AM Dominique Martinet wrote: > Please test, but if a file is deemed not compressible (based on, not > sure what? the first few blocks?) then it will be stored in the > non-compressed version. > You can check with compsize after the fact if the file had been > compress

Re: memory testing

2020-07-16 Thread Kamil Paral
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:56 PM Przemek Klosowski via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Have you looked at memtester? What do you think of it? > I've successfully used memtester in the past to detect suspend-resume memory corruption on my desktop, just by periodically suspending an

Re: Depcheck failed?

2012-03-26 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jon Ciesla > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Richard Shaw > > wrote: > >> > >> Darn... I was hoping that wouldn't bite me :) I'm assuming I can > >> ignore the error though? Or does it need to be fixed? > > > > Fix.  :( > > Which means I really need

[Test-Announce] Test Day 2012-03-29: GNOME Shell Software Rendering

2012-03-27 Thread Kamil Paral
There will be a "GNOME Shell Software Rendering" Test Day on Thursday! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-03-29_Gnome_Shell_Software_Rendering Here's an introduction from Vitezslav Humpa, who's in charge of this event from QA perspective: This week brings a second installment of Fedor

Re: Dependencies on Bodhi Updates

2012-04-02 Thread Kamil Paral
> So I really see two options for improving these situations: > 1) https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/ticket/663 I opened this ticket two > months ago (to silence). The idea would be to add the ability for > bodhi > updates to mark other updates as a dependency, so that in the example > above, Firefox

Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Kamil Paral
I was quite depressed how hard it can be for a layman to find a way to install Fedora from LiveCD environment. If you don't recognize the icon in Gnome Shell Overview mode, it can give you quite some work to find it. Since OSS philosophy is "if you don't like it, fix it", I did. In the last two

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: > > You can see it here: > > http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.png > > > > What do you think? Better than default? > > How about "Install Fedora" since it could be installed to S

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Kamil Paral
> So, we decided for F16 that we don't want to add extensions like that > to > the shell that we ship on the live cd. It should be the default > experience. Can't be 100% default, because installer is a slightly different use case, isn't it. > > For the 'make installing obvious' problem, what w

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Kamil Paral
To summarize, I see two major paths: a) Make installer launcher more visible: e.g. http://kparal.fedorapeople.org/misc/InstallFedoraButton.png -or- b) Use a proxy window asking which use case is relevant for you: e.g. http://i.imgur.com/I26vS.png Both approaches are fine in my view and certainl

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread Kamil Paral
> Actually... would it make sense to force a notification event about > the install option on live CD login? It pops up for a few seconds in > the message tray telling you this media can be used for a full > install..and then the message lives in the message tray until > dismissed. That is a good

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> > That is a good idea that can be probably implemented very easily. > > > > However, what is the benefit over a persistent button in the top > > panel? > > I believe its adequately provides a solution to meet all constraints > so far expressed in this discussion. > > 1) Notice on login with but

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-06 Thread Kamil Paral
The discussion died off, so I'll sum it up: * Almost everyone agreed that current situation is highly unsatisfactory. * We have several ideas how to remedy it, which include: top bar button, notification and welcome screen. * We have just a single implementation, which is the top bar button. S

Re: size of F17 install DVD

2012-04-09 Thread Kamil Paral
> nonamedotc gmail.com> writes: > > > Could someone please tell me why the install DVD for F17 is smaller > > than > > that for earlier releases. The install DVD is 2.3 GB whereas the > > one for > > F16, for example, is 3.5 GB. Thanks. > > AFAIK no one has completely figured this out yet. I not

Re: Dependencies on Bodhi Updates

2012-04-18 Thread Kamil Paral
> > Having this implemented manually would be great. In the future I'd > > like to replace it with automatic process managed by AutoQA. AutoQA > > would say Bodhi "this update can be only pushed together with this > > other update, because the first one depends on the second one". The > > maintaine

Re: Broken upgrade path(s) detected for: yaml-cpp

2012-04-18 Thread Kamil Paral
> In addition, I had fixed the script to properly support > updates-testing > repositories eons ago (should not compare fn-1-updates-testing with > fn- > updates), but my patch (attached) was never merged because the script > was to > be obsoleted by AutoQA anyway according to Jesse Keating. AutoQ

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-18 Thread Kamil Paral
> One angle on this that didn't get pointed out, I guess because > anaconda > team apparently isn't reading, is that at least one person on the > anaconda team - I forget who - hates liveinst with a passion and has > been proposing forever to kill it and replace it with a choice on the > live image

Re: Broken upgrade path(s) detected for: yaml-cpp

2012-04-19 Thread Kamil Paral
> Today I've followed instructions from > http://jlaska.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/fedora-package-maintainers-want-test-results/ > is that right? > > I've run: > > autoqa-optin UpTools F-15 > > Tell me if I'm wrong That is correct if you want to receive rpmlint/rpmguard test output for every new

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-19 Thread Kamil Paral
> > However in the meantime for F17, is the installer Easter egg hunt > > still on? It's way too obscure presently. > > I did some minor tweaks, posted the code here: > > https://github.com/kparal/InstallFedoraButton > > and prepared a patch for fedora-live-desktop.ks. > > I want to post the pa

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-19 Thread Kamil Paral
> > I did some minor tweaks, posted the code here: > > > > https://github.com/kparal/InstallFedoraButton > > > > and prepared a patch for fedora-live-desktop.ks. > > > > I want to post the patch to anaconda-devel this week. > > What do you thing about moving the icon to the left? This has already

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-20 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > That is obscure UI design, and therefore doesn't resolve the > > current > > UI obscurity. So I see very little efficacy in the idea. > > To contribute something positive here, I went ahead and implemented > the > 'oscurity'. See atta

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-27 Thread Kamil Paral
> There seems to be at least some consensus that: > > * The notification, unless permanent, is not an ideal solution here > because once it goes away, the user is in the same situation of > confusion as to how to install the Live Image to disk. > > * The extension as proposed is not an ideal solu

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-27 Thread Kamil Paral
> > but they don't push on any other solutions. > > A link from the http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora page directly > to > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Quick_Start_Guide/Fedora_Live_Desktop.html > > ? I've spent 5 minutes looking for that direct link and I ha

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-05-03 Thread Kamil Paral
> I'd also suggest merely indefinite article "a" instead of "any". > Simper for translation. How are the translations going to be handled, Kalev? How do you get it into spin-kickstarts? Is there enough time to set up project in transifex (or whatever is Fedora using) and have this translated be

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-05-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> Hi all, > > Yesterday night I noticed an IRC conversation on #fedora-desktop > about this, and suggested that an actual window would be a lot > better than a notification. > Kalev, Matthias and the people there agreed with me, so I went > ahead and wrote some code that does just that [1]. > Scr

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-05-04 Thread Kamil Paral
> > Is there enough time to set up project in > > transifex (or whatever is Fedora using) and have this translated > > before F17 release? > > Perhaps we can. Not sure if there's enough time for that. > > What's the use case for translations? I'll note that there's no way > to > select the langua

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-05-09 Thread Kamil Paral
> On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 10:31 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > > Cosimo, can you please make sure the whole window can be closed > > easily > > just by pressing the Escape key? That will help really help those > > of > > us who run LiveCDs many times per day, and

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